From the 1990s on Turner worked as camera operator and his film credits include the fantasy comedy Ghost Dad (1990, with Joe Unsinn and Christian H. Burton), the action comedy Air America (1990, with Randy Nolen), the science fiction comedy Memoirs of an Invisible Man (1992), the science fiction comedy The Meteor Man (1993), the comedy As Good as It Gets (1997), the comedy The Out-of-Towners (1999), the comedy Town & Country (2001), the comedy The Benchwarmers (2006), and the drama The Great Buck Howard (2008).

His credits as cinematographer are Art for Art (1996), Up Above the World (1997), No Limits (1997), and the crime drama Once in the Life (2000, with Titus Welliver).